Quotes about photography
photography thinking phones
[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer. Christian Marclay
photography eye quality
Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer.... I often see things after the fact. This revelatory quality includes a sense of playfulness, because you're not sure what the consequences are going to be. Christian Marclay
photography clothes benefits
Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world. George Santayana
photography voice giving
It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world. Frans Lanting
photography eye artist
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see? Jerry Uelsmann
photography creative celebration
The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography. Jerry Uelsmann
photography confused believe
I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level. Jerry Uelsmann
photography creating-value numbers
Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly better quality. But that's not the case with photography. To me, it's a false way of creating value. Jerry Uelsmann
photography attitude crafts
I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography. Jerry Uelsmann
photography moving thinking
Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to. Jerry Uelsmann
photography confused
I have gradually confused photography with life. Jerry Uelsmann
photography people creative
My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people. Jerry Uelsmann
photography believe computer
It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me. Jerry Uelsmann
photography light remember
Photography is just light remembering itself. Jerry Uelsmann
photography expression firsts
Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression. Jerzy Kosinski
photography humanity body
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard. Jerzy Kosinski
photography lasts problem
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. Gabriel Lippmann
photography thinking want
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy. Gabriel Byrne
photography jobs believe
If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors. Frank Capra
photography interesting feelings
Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick. Christopher Anderson
photography art book
I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it makes me happy and it looks good in my home. I also have a pretty big collection of art books mainly, again, on photography. A lot of photography monographs, which is great because with photography, the art itself can be reproduced quite well in book form. Chris Parnell
photography news dry
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you. Chris Hondros
photography way
The only way to kill death is through photography. Jean Cocteau
photography silence cry
Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless... Jean Cocteau
photography
I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be. Garry Winogrand
photography thinking moved
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either. Garry Winogrand
photography interest
My only interest in photographing is photography. Garry Winogrand
photography thinking worry
There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it. Garry Winogrand
photography art problem
The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography. Garry Winogrand
photography photograph
If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about. Garry Winogrand
photography photograph responsible
You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form. Garry Winogrand
photography photograph reloading
There are no photographs while I'm reloading . Garry Winogrand
photography all-things
All things are photographable. Garry Winogrand